A registered sex offender is charged for the third time with molesting young girls. Formal arraignment is scheduled Tuesday, April 2, for Jeffery Courter.

The 37-year-old St Joseph man is being held without bond on one count of first-degree child molestation. Courter is accused of fondling a girl under the age of 13.

He has prior convictions on the charge in 1996 and again in 2003.